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Mastering CSS

Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

Mastering CSS

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By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
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Preface

Flexible images


We've created a fluid grid, which is the first foundation of a responsive web design. Foundation two is responsive images or flexible images. We want our images or at least certain images to behave the same way as our divs and sections. We want them to be fluid or flexible.

Looking at our site, what we can notice is that the three images of The Octopus, The Crab, and The Whale shrink as the column they are in gets smaller. On the other hand, the shark at the top kind of stays the same size no matter what the browser width is:

Our image in the navigation is not flexible. The three images in our columns are flexible. We'll look at the image in the navigation and see why. But first, let's go over the three things that will guarantee responsive images:

  • Put the img tag inside of a container. The most semantic container is usually the figure tag, but it could certainly be any element.
  • Make the container fluid; give it a percentage width.
  • Assign the max-width property of 100% to all...

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